No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.